Hypertext Webster Gateway: "stria"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Stria \Stri"a\, n.; pl. {Stri[ae]}. [L., a furrow, channel,
hollow.]
1. A minute groove, or channel; a threadlike line, as of
color; a narrow structural band or line; a striation; as,
the stri[ae], or groovings, produced on a rock by a
glacier passing over it; the stri[ae] on the surface of a
shell; a stria of nervous matter in the brain.
2. (Arch.) A fillet between the flutes of columns, pilasters,
or the like. --Oxf. Gloss.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
stria
n 1: any of a number of tiny parallel grooves such as: the
scratches left by a glacier on rocks or the streaks or
ridges in muscle tissue [syn: {striation}]
2: a stripe of contrasting color; "chromosomes exhibit
characteristic bands" [syn: {band}, {striation}]
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